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Volume 11, Issue 6
Published: November 6, 2017
California dreaming on a biofuel-producing day
California is known for its innovative technology, progressive politics and sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. It is also the top agricultural producing state in the US, and a visit to its Central Valley...
Midwest lawmakers blitz White House as EPA seeks lower biodiesel mandate
US senators, representatives and state governors largely from the Midwest took the White House by storm in mid-October in response to a late September notice from the US Environmental Protection Agency...
Fuels of the future
UK sustainable energy company claims to be the first ever to have successfully converted actuall andfill gas (biogas) into drop-in renewable diesel fuelwith no fossil fuel additives. Its technology also...
Improving production efficiency
Since the beginning of its expansion period about 30 years ago, the global biofuels industry has been pursuing cellulosic solutions. While there are now a handful of large biomass-based cellulosic ethanol...
Wide range of issues tackled at Biofuels International Conference
The future of bioethanol, advanced biofuel developments and an uncertain policy landscape were some of the hot topics discussed at this year’s Biofuels International and Bioenergy Insight conference.The...
Purifying biodiesel
Avinash Alagumalai, a researcher and assistant professor from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India, was part of a study attempting...
A car with a green heart is on the move
UPM’s Biofore Concept Car has attracted plenty of interest and during the autumn and winter it can be spotted at major events in Europe and Asia. What is the concept all about? The concept car is...
Ethanol plant optimisation: The next steps
Most dry-grind ethanol plants built in recent years are well designed and fairly robust, but operating knowledge and equipment updates still offer many opportunities foryield, energy, and operational improvements....
The green agenda
REDcert was founded in 2010 by leading associations and organisations of the German agricultural and biofuel sectors. By creating the scheme, the economic groups affected assumed joint responsibility for...